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Wonderful looking dragon fruit Bolt! Love it! My plants all got zorched by the odious winter of 2012-2013 but are slowly coming back. Yours looks great! Have you eaten it? Was it as good as the store bought ones? Nom nom nom! Great new pics, Dusti! Love the cupheas and the pink Malvaviscus. I really need to add pink and white to my "collection" of two varieties, hah. I've got green leaf with red flowers and variegated leaf with red flowers, plus a seedling from a seed I planted last autumn that's about 8 inches tall now. I imagine it will be red which is fine with me. I need more though, they're really great plants (I fell in love with them at the wonderful Tucson Botanical Garden where they have some awesome plantings of them). Anyway, your garden and plants all look awesome. How long have you had the Brunfelsia, and has it stayed happy? What conditions does it get? I've always been scared they would want more humidity than we can give it. We'd love to see/hear more. So nice to see the pics and updates all. The morning weather is great, isn't it? Even the warm afternoons aren't as warm for as long. Now if we can just get rid of the humidity, hah. Uber-quick pics from the garden: my variegated leaf Malvaviscus drummondii is blooming away under my grapefruit tree. I'm glad the variegation isn't burning in the partial sun it receives: Japanese honeysuckle (I know it's a weed in many places) is starting to bloom for autumn. Such a fun fairly well behaved vine here, and nicely green all year. Ruellias in pinks and purples are blooming like crazy: LAST autumn's sowing of hollyhocks is doing great and is really perking up with the cooler weather. They're in full hot sun and get no automatic irrigation. They did great even though I have five one-week trips this summer. Such little troopers that will definitely bloom in late winter/spring. Finally, some NEW hollyhock babies planted ten days ago. I planted a bunch from my own plants, plus some I picked up during a road trip to Santa Fe, NW a month ago (harvested from alley/parking lot plants, not from anyone's garden of course). Plant hollyhock seed now and you'll have nice plants that will coast through winter. Some will bloom their first spring, and almost all will their second spring and beyond. So easy and SO many great varieties out there. Happy gardening all! Grant Here is a link that might be useful: Pics from my garden, Sept 2014

Howdy, HMC. About Ebay, sellers can no longer leave Negative feedback for a buyer. I think that's wrong, 'I've never sold anything on Ebay, only bought.' It doesn't sound fair. Say a buyers buys an item, clicks the proper buttoms, but doesn't pay. In the meantime, the seller removed the item from Ebay. Well, that's that. To top it off the seller can't leave Neg feedback? I don't understand. I believe I'm still a paid member on Dave's, but I paid some time ago. Maybe a year or more. They never sent a letter saying it expired unless the email went to Spam. LOL, no, the Citrus ban takes place in Fl, not IL..lol. Fl cannot ship citrus anywhere out of state. IL doesn't export citrus. lol. Funny you should mentioned the fern. I have a Rabbit's Foot Fern. A couple wks back, I bought one called, Giant Davillia/Rabbits Foot Fern, don't know if there's a difference. I have a 19-yr-old fern that resembles leather. I don't know its Botanical name. Wonder if that's the plant you mean. BTW, I took your advice and bought Irene Nuss and Grey Feather. lol..'no more plants, right!' lol What are the two plants you posted? They're lovely. Very pretty. This is an older pic of the fern, and it's next to two others, maybe you can make heads, and let me know if this is the fern you mean. Hey WoeBegonia. Shux..I got antsy, so sowed the luxurian seeds..ended up setting them in small Peat Pellets. They're inside a plastic bag, but the end is open for ventilation. So far, nothing. I should have waited till spring to sow. The house has been cold, and with a zillion other things to do, I didn't look for the heating mat. So far I brought two plants in, now, only 300 more..lol. The ants are gone, for now..but what's been happening is, they return in spring/summer. The only thing I can figure out is they lay eggs in plant pots, then hatch when the weather warms. How in the world can people want ant farms? Sheesh. lol Are the fires out? I hope so..sounds terrible, and had to be..Hope nobody got hurt. Funny, Jerry Baker was the second author 'James Underwood Crockett, from Victory Garden's being the first,' I learned about basic plants. This was longgg ago. Late 70's, early 80's. He's got some weird ideas..using urine for plants, lol. Can you imagine. Friend: you're plants are gorgeous, what do you use to make them so healthy-looking. Me: Oh, urine. Just feel the texture. lolol Back to luxurians..I don't know how moist to keep the pellets. Too wet they rot, too dry seeds die. What a pain. I also sowed Bottle Palm seeds, but they can take a year to germinate, if they germinate. We're supposed to get several days of rain. I'm worried about succulents. Don't want to lose any. Friday and Saturday, I spent the day cleaning windows and areas plants will be wintered. A lot of work. If it wasn't raining, I'd bring in baby Euphorbias..hope it stops some time today..these grey days are driving me up the wall. Oh, H, you asked if I'd like to be outside at 49F degress, w/o a coat, etc. I wouldn't like to be outside at 60F degrees w/o a coat. lol. I'm always cold. Actually, plants are doing great outside..it's after coming in I'm worried about. Dry, stuffy air, less light, etc. Funny, some days/nights I think, my poor plants are probably cold outside, lol. Some more than others. Certain plants need a certain amount of cold to produce winter blooms, and it hasn't been under 32F. Thank God!!!

Dear Garf, Again you are welcome to join me at Fairchild tomorrow if you want and if you want to go Sunday I can go Sunday too. Again you cna go in oon my membership and your wife is welcome too as I can admit four people. HOWEVER: I tried to email you my phone number and I do not see anyway of doing that on your page. Either you do not have an email link or I am doing something wrong. Can you or someone else help? I can email you my phone number as soon as I can figure it out. I will check back here in the morning and we cannot figure it out I can leave you a ticket at the door. Let me know.